iatromathematical, a.
(-mæθɪˈmætɪkəl)
[f. mod.L. iatromathēmaticus (Ampsingius, 1602), a. Gr. ἰατροµαθηµατικός (Proclus), applied to ‘those who practised medicine in conjunction with astrology’, f. ἰᾱτρό-ς physician + µαθηµατικ-ός mathematical: see -ical. Cf. F. iatromathématique.]
† a. Practising medicine in conjunction with astrology (quot. 1621). Obs. b. Relating to or holding a mathematical theory of medicine; applied to a school of physicians which arose in Italy in the 17th century, whose system of physiology and medicine was founded on the principles of mathematics and mechanics.
| 1621 Burton Anat. Mel. ii. i. iv. i. 298 Paracelsus..will haue..time of cure, of gathering of herbs..Astrologically obserued, which Thurnesserus, and some Iatromathimatical professors, are too superstitious in my Iudgment. 1832 [see iatro-chemical]. 1838–9 Hallam Hist. Lit. IV. iv. viii. §38. 362 A second school of medicine..the iatro-mathematical. |
Hence iˌatromatheˈmatically adv. So also † iˌatromatheˈmatic n. (see quot. 1656).
| 1603 Sir C. Heydon Jud. Astrol. vi. 178 He neglecteth not the preceptes of Phisick, but Iatromathematicallie ioineth them together. 1656 Blount Glossogr., Iatromathematique..may signifie a Physitian that is also a Mathematician, or one skild both in Physic, and the Mathematicks. 1889 H. E. Handerson tr. Baas's Outl. Hist. Med. 503 Edward Barry thought that the age of a man could be calculated Iatro-mathematically from the frequency of the pulse. |